· Ruling eases process for “anticipatory withdrawal” of union recognition
· Replaces unfair labor practice process with call for new election
· The National Labor Relations Board made it easier for an employer to oust a union after getting evidence that a majority of workers no longer supports that union.
· The NLRB’s Republican majority modified the board’s legal framework for an employer to stop bargaining prior to the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement and announce it will eject the union when that contract ends. Under the board’s July 3 ruling, an employer that makes such an “anticipatory withdrawal” can’t be hit with an unfair labor practice charge challenging whether the union really lacked majority support when the contract ended.
· An employer can announce its pending withdrawal of recognition within 90 days of the expiration of a contract and then withdraw when the pact ends, according to the ruling. A union that wants to reestablish its majority status following an employer’s anticipatory withdrawal then has 45 days to file a petition for a new election.
· The ruling fits with the NLRB’s ongoing efforts to make it easier for dissatisfied workers to kick out their unions. GOP board members have said they’re open to reconsidering current precedent on when workers can oust their union. The board also is considering changes to other restrictions on elections to decertify unions.
· The board’s 3-1 decision signed off on Johnson Controls Inc.’s anticipatory withdrawal of recognition to a United Auto Workers affiliate that represented 160 of its workers.

This is anti-worker, which cannot be a shock.
For all those working class Dolt45 voters, once again, here is another example of you supporting someone who doesn’t give a rats’ ass about you and your welfare.
Just another example of the negative ramifications from this Administration.
Unions, in case you don’t grasp it, are responsible for everything positive for the working person. Everything that you enjoy that is positive as a worker, comes from Unions and their fight. Which is why the Republican Party have been against them and have been working to discredit them and strip them of their power. These rulings fall into that category.

.@KellyannePolls oh hi Distraction Becky. Remember that time your boss tore babies from their mothers’ arms and threw them in cages? Yeah take a seat and keep my name out of your lying mouth. https://t.co/dS8saIssX8

Media is letting Trump set the narrative of his relationship with Epstein—with no fact-checking. The Trump-Epstein relationship is a *critical* issue—Trump's counter-factual denials shouldn't be broadcast without caveat when media hasn't done its homework. https://t.co/Zpy3zgQeDr

This is your Republican Party. It is not Donald Trump. It is not Stephen Miller. It is not Jeffrey Epstein. It is all of them. They are all complicit.

This is a party that has no morals and they make no apologies for it. They support their White supremacist Congressman from Iowa. They support their Alabama senate nominee who was a known sexual predator. They support the nomination of an unethical man to the highest court in the land. Ethics be damned with the modern Republican Party. All that matters in staying in power.
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Because make no mistake. The Republican Party will go lower. Their evil knows no bounds. They continue to protect their own and target who they perceive to be as the weak. It’s a slow march toward genocide that can only be stopped by us, the people. And it can only be stopped if we stay angry, pissed off, and motivated over the next 16 months. There are more sick fucks like Jeffrey Epstein out there, being protected by Republicans. We may or may not hear about them. But unless we remove this administration in 2020, we sure as hell won’t be able to shine the sunlight on them to disinfect them from the American political landscape. Remember how you’re feeling today, July 9th, and channel that anger into positive energy these next 16 months. Because that anger you feel today will be magnified exponentially on November 3rd, 2020 if this administration is allowed to continue in office for another 4 years.

A Houston-based doctor says she was removed from an American Airlines flight and humiliated in front of her son because her outfit—a colorful romper—was deemed “inappropriate” for the flight.

Dr. Latisha “Tisha” Rowe, who was flying with her 8-year-old son on June 30 from Kingston, Jamaica (hot) to Miami (also hot!), described the incident on Twitter and posted a photo of the offending romper.

That, my friends, is what you call a regular, standard-issue romper—the kind you see on every sidewalk, brunch table, and cookout across the country from now until September. If that’s too much, then how is anyone supposed to have a hot girl summer?

According to Rowe, she and her child were told to deplane and were not allowed to go back onboard until she wrapped blanket around herself. Despite knowing she had done nothing wrong, Rowe told Business Insider she complied because she saw the effect the incident was having on her son:

“The main goal in the Israeli agenda is to grab more lands.”#OnThisDay 15 years ago, ICJ ruled Israel's separation wall as illegal. Yet, the wall continues to cut through Palestinian communities in what has been criticised as a policy to continue confiscating Palestinian land. pic.twitter.com/MzNJ6IpVP9

Steele was mfking MI6. The FBI and our intelligence agencies had worked with him for years before Trump decided to run for POTUS. This means they already knew he was a credible source of information. I’m hoping Barr loses his d@mn license for doing Trump’s dirty work because he knows better. The reason the DOJ team that was working on adding the citizenship question to the census were replaced is probably because they weren’t willing to break the law and lose their licenses for Trump. Maybe now Barr will sit his @ss down somewhere.

This is wild. Three days after Seth Rich was killed, Russian intelligence drafted a fake memo implicating Rich in the DNC email hack. It soon popped up online, and the conspiracy theories snowballed https://t.co/SORZ1wJSLk

After the White House announced plans for a presidential speech on the environment, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement, “Donald Trump is resorting to greenhouse gaslighting the public to try and cover-up the fact that he is the worst president in history for the environment, climate and public health.”

That’s a good line. It also happens to be true.

Before we talk about what Trump said on the subject, part of what made yesterday interesting was the fact that the Republican delivered remarks on the subject at all. The New York Times had an interesting behind-the-scenes report:

Reviewing new polling data, consultants working for President Trump’s 2020 campaign discovered an unsurprising obstacle to winning support from two key demographic groups, millennials and suburban women. And that was his record on the environment.

But they also saw an opportunity. While the numbers showed that Mr. Trump was “never going to get” the type of voter who feels passionately about tackling climate change, a senior administration official who reviewed the polling said, there were moderate voters who liked the president’s economic policies and “just want to know that he’s being responsible” on environmental issues.

So for nearly an hour in the East Room on Monday afternoon, Mr. Trump sought to recast his administration’s record by describing what he called “America’s environmental leadership” under his command.

When Sen. Pat Roberts (R) announced on Jan. 4 that he wouldn’t seek a fourth term in Kansas in 2020, the conventional wisdom was that Republicans would have little trouble holding onto the seat. After all, Kansans haven’t elected a Democratic U.S. senator since 1932.

But a slight chill ran through GOP spines a few hours after Roberts declared his intentions. Outgoing Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), fresh off his failed gubernatorial campaign, told the New York Times that he was “considering” running for the seat.

Yesterday, he made it official, though as the Wichita Eagle reported, the right-wing Kansan seemed to stumble into the contest, misspelling his own name in his campaign paperwork.

Joy Reid shares details from new reports in which the workers at the infamous migrant detention center in Clint, Texas say the concerns they raised about conditions at the facility were ignored by border patrol officials.

Jess Bravin, Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, discusses the changing tactics by the Donald Trump administration to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and the new legal team brought on by the Department of Justice to try to meet Donald Trump’s demands.

Joy Reid reports on Annie Donaldson, former chief of staff to Donald McGahn in the White House, refusing to answer many of the questions posed by Congress about her testimony to Robert Mueller, claiming a similar privilege excuse others in Donald Trump’s orbit have used in the past.

Joy Reid reports on the latest developments in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, including Rep. Eric Swalwell being the first to drop out of the race (poof!), and remarkable fundraising totals from Elizabeth Warren. Karine Jean-Pierre, chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org joins for analysis.

The main takeaway from the $ numbers for me is that Biden and Sanders, although their numbers are respectable, are not juggernaut-ish frontrunners who can freeze other candidates out from competing—although that's been obvious all along.

Mimi Rocah, former federal prosecutor, talks with Joy Reid about why the new Jeffrey Epstein case is being handled by the SDNY’s Public Corruption Unit, and the unusual, improper handling of the previous Epstein case by prosecutors in Florida, including current Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.

Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald investigative reporter whose work is credited with influencing federal prosecutors to pursue new sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, discusses the similarities between the new case and the previous case that resulted in an extremely lenient deal for Epstein.
July 8, 2019

Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) Tweeted:
Michelle Obama’s failure to defend Joe Biden against charges of racism was cruel. The Obamas owe Biden a defense against false charges. Biden’s actions in Ukraine and China and his intellect are real issues. Racism is not. This is like the Obama race attack on Bill Clinton. https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1148445255525720064?s=17

itgurl (@itgurl_29) Tweeted:
Louise Mensch is a weirdo but she was right about a good bit of this stuff with Trump. And yes, she was one of the first to go there with the sex trafficking angle and got called crazy by people like Seth and other msm folks on here. https://twitter.com/itgurl_29/status/1148371708442796033?s=17

elizabeth bruenig (@ebruenig) Tweeted:
the epstein thing isn’t about partisanship (i.e., right-wing people did something; no, left-wing people were involved, too! ha!) it’s about class. rich people did things, and their loyalty to their class transcends partisanship https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1148326889980944385?s=17

Never seen anything like this. A complete withdrawal by all the trial level experts at DOJ — all of them. Every. One. This is the canary in the coal mine. Trump is stuck defending the census shenanigans w people from consumer protection division. They do impt work. Just. Not.This https://t.co/ob6IVzXA26

Barr might not relish the notion of Mueller testifying, but calling it a “public spectacle” displays a level of fear that’s consistent with the man who mischaracterized the report’s findings realizing the man who wrote it will finally get his day in court. https://t.co/2RKG1n3LEl

Tim Kaine (@timkaine) Tweeted:
Acosta must go. He handed a sweetheart deal to a serial sexual predator. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have been denied their day in court for too long. I’m thankful other prosecutors stepped in to finally deliver justice. https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/1148336681965277185?s=17

Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) Tweeted:
If there was a daily White House Briefing, the Trump White House would have to explain why Alex Acosta still has job, but since there isn’t, there will be no accountability and the media will move on to something else by dinner https://twitter.com/danpfeiffer/status/1148280025013088259?s=17

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